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International Sociology Review of Books (ISRB)

ISRB is looking for reviewers for some of books listed below. Reviews of single books are typically 1,000-1,500 words in length, while review essays (combining two or more books) are usually 3,500-5,000 words. Formats and length may be negotiated as needed. Reviews are due within two months of receiving the book. 

If you are interested in doing a review, please send a message to Prof. Mohammed A. Bamyeh, Editor, University of Pittsburgh, USA, mab205@pitt.edu

Author Title of Book

Adey, Peter   

Aerial Life

Agnete, Gay  et al (eds)   

The Handbook of Research on Enterpreneurship in Agriculture and Rural Development

Ahearne, Jereme    

Intellectuals, Culture and Public Policy in France

Akakpo, Yaovi    

L'horizon des sciences en Afrique

Albrecht, Ralf   

Judgendkultur und Rhytmus

al-werfalli, Mabroka    

Political Alienation in Libya

Amato, Masssimo,   Luca Fantacci   

The End of Finance

Bandelj, Nina,   Elizabeth Sowers   

Economy and State

Beisheim (ed) et al., Margaret   

Constructions of Women's Age at the Workplace

Beland, Daniel    

What is social Policy?

Bergman, Marcelo    

Tax Evasion & The Rule of Law in Latin America

Berton, Fabio, Matteo Richiardi, Stefano Sacchi  

The Political Economy of Work Security and Flexibility

Besharov, Douglas J., Douglas M. Call (eds)   

Poverty, Welfare and Public Policy

Betz, Mark   

Beyond the Subtitle

Biney, Moses O.    

Froom Africa to America

Birls, Ursula  (ed)   

Richtsextremismus und Gender

Blossfeld, Hans-Peter  (ed) et al.   

Aging Populations, Globalization and the Labor Market

Blossfeld, Hans-Peter (ed) et al.   

Globalized Labour Markets and Social Inequality in Europe

Bob, Clifford  (ed)   

The International Struggle for New Human Rights

Boelhouwer, Jeroen    

Wellbeing in the Netherlands

Bourdieu, Pierre    

Political Interventions

Braun, Jerome,   Lauren Langman   

Alienation and the Carnivalization of Society

Brewer, John D.    

Peace Processes

Burges, J. Peter    

The Ethical Subject of Security

Busfield, Joan    

Mental Illness

Calhoun, Craig    

Nations Matter

Carson, Dean  (ed.) et al.   

Demography at the Edge

Chabot, Sean 

Transnational Roots of the Civil Rights Movement

Chekki, Dan A.  

From India to Canada

Choudhary, Sujit Kumar  

NGO's, Education, and Social Capital

Chung, Jae Ho,  Tao-Chiu Lam (eds)   

China's Local Administration

Connolly, Anthony J.   

Indigenous Rights

Culyer, A.J.,   Adam Wagstaff (eds)   

Reforming Health Care Systems

Cumbers, Andrew  

Reclaiming Public Ownership

Dale, John G.    

Free Burma

Davis, Diane E.,  Nora de Duren (ed)   

Cities and Sovereignty

Derricourt, Robert    

Inventing Africa

Dhaouadi, Mahmoud  

L'univers Des Symboles Humains

Ditmore, Mellissa Hope et al (eds)   

Sex Work Matters

Dodd, John, Veena Sharma (eds)   

Leisure and Tourism

Doezema, Jo    

Sex Slaves and Discourse Masters: The Construction of Trafficing

Doogan, Kevin   

New Capitalism

Drake, Michael S.   

Political Sociology for a Globalizing World

Edensor,Tim    

Geographies of Rhytm

Emigh, Rebecca Jean    

The Development of Capitalism

Fabian, Katalin    

Contemporary Women's Movements in Hungary

Ferrari, Fabrizio M.    

Health and Religious Rituals in Asia

Fine, Gary Alan,   Bill Ellis   

The Global Grapevine

Fleischer, Friederike    

Suburban Beijing

Flusser, Villem    

Into the Universe of Technical Images

Friedman, Kajsa Ekholm,   Jonathan Friedman   

Historical Transformations

Fuller, Steve    

New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies

Garbutt, Rob    

The Locals

Gellner, Davind N.    

Varieties of Activist Experience

Gill, Matthew    

Accountant's Truth

Gilligan, James    

Why Some Politicians Are More Dnagerous Than Others

Giorcelli, Christina, Paula Rabionowitz (eds)   

Acessorizing the Body

Gould, Deborah B.   

Moving Politics

Grainger, Roger    

The Uses of Chaos

Gray, Herman,   Macarena Gomez-Barriz (eds)   

Towards a Sociology of the Trace

Gutman, Yifat  et al (eds)   

Memory and the future

Hasmath, Reza  

A Comparative Study of Minority Development of China and Canada

Hayden, Patrick,  Chamsy El-Ojeili (eds)   

Globalization and Utopia

Henderson, Jeffrey    

East Asian Transformation

Heymann, Jody, Alison Earle  

  Raising the Global Floor

Hoehne ,Markus,  Virginia Luling   

Milk and Peace, Draught and War: Somali Culture, Society and Politics

Houtman, Dick  et al   

Paradoxoes of Individualization

Huggan, Graham , Ian Law (eds)   

Racism, Postcolonialism, Europe

Illouz, Eva 

Why Love Hurts

Ingham, Geoffrey    

Capitalism

Ishizuka,Karen L.  et al (eds)   

Mining the Home Movie

Jaffrelot, Christophe    

Religion, Caste and Politics in India

Jaspers, Jurgens  et al (eds)   

Society and Language Use

Jordan, Bill   

What's wrong with Social Policy and How to Fix It

Kahla, Elina  (ed)   

Between Utopia and Apocalypse: Essays on Social Theory and Russia

Kaldor, Mary, Henrietta L. Moore, Sabine Selchow (eds)  

Global Civil Society 2012

Kaselitz,  Petra Ziegler (eds)   

Gender Equality in the Enlarged European Union

Kassimeris, Christos    

Footbals Comes Here

Katzenstein, Peter J.    

Civilizations in World Politics

Kavuri-Bauer,Santhi    

Monumental Matters

Kiihato, Caroline Wanjiku  et al (eds)   

Urban Diversity

Koch, Max    

Capitalism and Climate Change

Koutrakos, Panos    

Euuropean Foreign Policy

Kuhlmann, Ellen, Ellen Annandale (eds)  

The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare

Lahire, Bernard    

The Plural Actor

Lambert, Helene    

International Refugee Law

Larrinaga, Miguel de,  Marc. G. Doucer (eds)   

Security and Global Governmentality

Larsson, Tomas  

Land and Loyalty

Latouche, Serge    

Farewell to Growth

Lehman, Howaard P.   

Japan and Africa

Luhmann, Niklas    

Love: A Sketch

Lune,Howard    

Understanding Organizations

Lyall, Catherine  et al (eds)   

The Limits to Governance

Lyon, David    

Identifying Citizens

MacConville, Una    

Sociological and Spiritual Aspects of Pallative Care in Ireland

Malatesta, Maria    

Professional Men, Professional Women

Maney, Gregory M. et al (eds)  

Strategies for Social Change

Matos, Carolina    

Media and Politics in Latin America

Merton, Robert K., Craig Calhou (ed)

Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science

Micocci, Andrea    

The Metaphysics of Capitalism

Mirchandani, Kiran    

Phone Clones

Moeller, Hans-Georg    

The Radical Luhmann

Moore, Henrietta L.    

Still Life

Mrozowicki, Adam    

Coping with Social Change

Muller, Benjamin J,    

Security, Risk and The Biometric State

Nakawo, Masayoshi  (eds)   

Ecological Migration

Nyerges, Timothy L.  et al (eds)   

The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society

Osirim, Mary Johnson    

Urban Zimbabwe

Osterma, Paul , Beth Shulman   

Good Jobs America

Pain, Rachel Susan J. Smith (eds)   

Fear: Crticial Geopolitics and Everyday Life

Pascale, Celine-Marie    

Cartographies of Knowledge

Pyrke, Sam   

Nationalism in a Global World

Qian, Yufang    

Discoursive Constructions Around Terrorism in the People's Daily (China) and The Sun (UK)

Ram, Uri    

Israeli Nationalism

Ranci, Cosstanzo  (ed)   

Social Vulnerability in Europe

Ranciere, Jacques    

The Politics of Literature

Rentschler, Carrie A.    

Second Wounds

Richardson, John E.    

(Mis)Representing Islam

Rootes, Christopher  (ed)   

Acting Locally

Ross, Robert    

Clothing a Global History

Rovisco, Maria , Magdalena Nowicka (eds)   

Cosmopolitanism

Saloul, Ihab  

Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination

Scheil, Katherine West  

She Hath Been Reading

Schmid, Heiko  et al (eds)   

Cities and Fascination

Schoenbaum, Thomas J.  (ed)   

Peace in Northeast Asia

Scoular, Jane,  Teela Sanders (eds)   

Regulating Sex/Work

Semelin, Jacques  et al (eds)   

Resisting Genocide

Shaw, Jenny     

Social and Cultural Perspectives

Shehata, Samer S. (ed) 

Islamist Politics in the Middle East

Simon-Maeda, Andrea    

Being and Becominc a Speaker of Japanese

Sitrin, Marina A.  

Everyday Revolutions

Smaal,Yotick , Graham Willet (eds)   

Out Here: Gay and Lesbian Perspectives VI

Souza, Maria Dolors,  Particio Cabello (eds)   

The Emerging Media Toddlers

Stohl, Rachel , Suzette Grillot   

The International Arms Trade

Sturm, Roland , Jurgen Dieringer (eds)   

Regional Governance in EU

Swartz, Sharlene,  Monica Taylor (ed)   

Moral Education in sub-Saharan Africa

Taylor,Graham    

The New Political Sociology

Therborn, goran    

From Marxism to Post-Marxism

Therborn, Goran    

The World

Tickamyer, Ann R., Siti Kusujiarti  

Power, Change, and Gender Relations in Rural Java

Todorov, Tzvetan    

The Fears of Barbarians

Toschchenko, Zhan    

Paradox Man

Turner, Stephen P.    

Explaining the Normative

Vallas, Steven Peter    

Work

Vigo, Julian    

Performative Bodies, Hybrid Tongues

Voert, Frank    

Democracy and Dissent

Walby, Kevin  

Touching Encounters

Weaver, Simon    

The Rhetoric of Racist Humour

Webber, Jeffrey R.    

Red October

Weslowski, Wlodzimierz  et al (eds)   

National and European? Polish Political Elite in Comparative Perspective

Westra, Laura    

Globalization, Violence and World Governance

White, Bob W.  (ed)   

Music and Globalization

Wibben, Annick T. R.    

Feminist Security Studies

Wieviorka, Michel    

La tentation antisemite

Williams, Simon J.    

The Politics of sleep

Youngs, Richard  (eds)   

The European Union and Democracy Promotion

Zaeef, Abdul Salam    

My Life With the Taliban

Zaidi, Ali    

Islam, Modernity and the Human Sciences

Zheng, Tiantian    

Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workes in Postsocialist China

 

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